The Syrian civil war is killing Lebanon’s nascent tourism industry

Photo Credit: A tourist visits the castle at Sidon, Lebanon. Flickr.com / Heather Cowper
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Restaurants were thriving, luxury hotels were being built, and visitor arrivals were at an all-time high in 2010, but violence in neighboring Syria has kept tourists and locals at home even more so than Lebanon’s own 15-year civil war.